Show EXILED EXPRESIDENT DEAD Nord Alexis Who Was Compelled to Abdicate and Flee From Haytl Succumbs to Grim Reaper Kingston Jamaica Nord Alexis expresident of Haytl died hate on May 1 after a brief lllnosJ III health however had been considerably consider-ably broken by tho experiences of tho past eighteen months after ho was deposed and sent into exile He has been hero since the revolution of 1908 and possessed considerable property prop-erty in Kingston A picturesque character was taken from office when Alexis was compelled compell-ed to abdicate and flee from Haytl on December 2 1908 Port nu Prince was then In the hands of tho revolutionists revolu-tionists and General Antoine Simon who afterward became president was mrachlng up tho peninsula with an army ot 5000 men Alexis was variously estimated at from 80 to 100 years Ho was a descendant de-scendant of one of tho oldest families In Haytl Ho took part in many wars Nord Alexis became president ot Haytl in 1902 His term was to havo expired May 15 1909 but his administration admin-istration was not conspicuously successful suc-cessful Prominent politicians grumbled grum-bled because he did not give them what they considered their fair share of the spoils and his conduct in punishing pun-ishing some notorious looters of the national treasury excited widespread indignation as It was regarded as a gross breach of precedent Early In 1908 the movement against Alexis had gained great strength and in March a reign of terror was suddenly Inaugurated in Port au Prince The government seized many of tho revolutionists and summarily put moro than a scoro of them to death The number of executions according ac-cording to some reports reached for tyeight General Simon took up arms against the president His march to tho capital was a triumphant one The people surrounded the palace December Decem-ber 2 and took posseslon of the city At tho last moment Alexis yielded to the pleas of those about him and decided de-cided to take refuge on board tho French warship Duguay Trouln |